Debate: IdeoMotorPrisoner v. Putnam6 -

[putnam6]

What's ridiculously myopic and paranoid to be afraid of discovery, after all, we are men(human), not mice. We do not burrow and hide from the cat, if our ancient ancestors did we would still be in caves howling at the moonlight and scared of thunder and lightning.

It's myopic because its based on arrogant and pompous humans who theorize any and all life forms will have our human emotions, wants, needs and desires. When it's infinitely more likely they will ignore us completely, or we are looked upon as wild untamed and uncouth in comparison to the vast majority of advanced lifeforms. Thus we are probably safe unless they look at us as "bacon" or need us as slaves which are both unlikely "human" imagined alien tropes.

REALITY is there is probably a broad spectrum of benevolent to malevolent NHI and every attitude in between. Even if this is the case, would it not be in our best interests to seek out and hopefully find the benevolent ones instead of just hiding in our caves waiting for the malevolent alien cat?

Lastly, I believe that if humanity is to go on, we all mostly want this conclusion. We will have to find a way off this planet sooner or later. We don't know if the next solar storm will wipe out our electrical grid, or if some other unforeseen event will prevent us from exploring the cosmos, this is why we need to try now. We don't know what the future will bring.  

Carl always had the best perspective out of the dozens of scholarly quotes this one resonates as much as any of them.